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Originally posted by Lava,
Can real love flourish between rich and poor? Or must the poorer one be after the richer one's money? :)
Lava |
I hardly believe so. Socio-economic differences are huge. Not only for the standard of living of each one, but also because of staunchly different values, the way the rich and poor are socialized, the way they come to perceive and understand the world etc.
Because economics is the absolute primary source of power, the rich person will always feel that they had a lot to offer to the poor one and they will want to be in control in the relationship, always feeeling like the other one owes them quite a lot.
The poor one often has to put up with this feeling of "unequal ground", usually has to defer to the rich one, the rich one's family typically looks down upon the poor partner, etc.
And that applies even when the rich one is the man and the poor one (be it gorgeous!) is the woman. At a first glance, both are believed to bring equally valuable resources to the table (male money and female beauty, respectively), but in reality the male money weighs waaaaay more than the female beauty.
I am coming from a family of this sort: father coming from a (formerly) rich family - "formerly" because they lost everything to natioanlization when communists came in in 1944, but they still preserved the rich "aura" anyway...plus some resources that they had managed to hide from communists - and mother (very cute!) coming from a downright poor family.
I witnessed many parental problems during my childhood, I continue to witness them today, though they did stay together because in that country at that time, divorce was still quite frowned upon. But i honestly do not believe they were overall terribly happy.
Would not recommend the arrangement, unless you are a gold-digging woman primarily interested in the money and plan to get a divorce as soon as you qualify for some of his share.